CSS Alternatives

CSS is described as 'Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g., fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to CSS for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, Mac, Windows and Linux apps. The best CSS alternative is Tailwind CSS, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CSS are Sass, daisyUI, Yumma CSS and LESS CSS.

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  1. Tailwind CSS icon
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    Tailwind is different from frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation, or Bulma in that it's not a UI kit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • CSS
     
  2. Sass icon
     27 likes

    Sass is a stylesheet language initially designed by Hampton Catlin and developed by Nathan Weizenbaum. After its initial versions, Nathan Weizenbaum and Chris Eppstein have continued to extend Sass with SassScript, a simple scripting language used in Sass files.

    5 Sass alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Ruby
     
  3. daisyUI icon
     2 likes

    daisyUI adds component class names to Tailwind CSS so you can make beautiful websites faster than ever.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • CSS
     
  4. Yumma CSS icon
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    A CLI-first CSS framework for the web with abbreviated and optimized styles for simple and scalable design systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • CSS
     
  5. LESS CSS icon
     25 likes

    Less (which stands for Leaner Style Sheets) is a backwards-compatible language extension for CSS. This is the official documentation for Less, the language and Less.js, the JavaScript tool that converts your Less styles to CSS styles.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Panda CSS icon
     Like

    CSS-in-JS with build time generated styles, RSC compatible, multi-variant support, and best-in-class developer experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Stylus CSS icon
     17 likes

    Stylus is a revolutionary new language, providing an efficient, dynamic, and expressive way to generate CSS. Supporting both an indented syntax and regular CSS style.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Node.JS
     
  8. Swupe icon
     1 like

    Swupe is an easy way of writing CSS without having to spend hours on styling. Swupe stands for Style Web Ui Pages Easily, and it lets you do that by providing all the functions of CSS without needing to type everything out.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Tailkit icon
     1 like

    Carefully crafted, easy to customize, fully responsive UI Components, Templates and Tools for your Tailwind CSS based projects.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Stylable icon
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    At Wix, we agree. We ? CSS. It’s simple, declarative syntax that is native in browsers is easily the fastest way to add styles to web pages and web apps. But when writing CSS that is scoped to individual components, developers have to maintain highly-specific selectors, using...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • CSS
     
  11. PaperCSS icon
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    I got tired of mODerN STylEs and clean pages on the internet. I also wanted to learn more about Flexbox and Less. So I made PaperCSS to solve these two challenges of mine :)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, Maintaining and evolving HTML since 2004.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • HTML
     
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    Comments about WHATWG as an Alternative to CSS
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    WHATWG is an organisation. CSS is a language.

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    WHATWG is the committee that writes the HTML standard. It is not a standard or a software.

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    It is an organization, not a language

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    • WHATWG is Free and Open SourceCSS is also Free and Open Source
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